[aprssig] Appalachian Trail APRS trip report
Robert Bruninga
bruninga at usna.edu
Tue Mar 7 23:14:23 EST 2006
>>> Joe Della Barba <joe at dellabarba.com> 03/07/06 5:35 PM >>>
Would one of these have helped?
*http://tinyurl.com/rly3k
Not really. my point in that instance was that GPS was
simply not needed when one has a map and the sense to
read it. Sometimes we take technology too seriously
when low-tech, or no-tech works just fine... Bob
*
Robert Bruninga wrote:
>Just got back from a 4 day 40 mile hike on the AT with
>6 high school kids. I carried APRS, HF, GPS, RINO's
>a few HT's and several FRS radios for the kids.
>Lessons relearned:
>1) Never once took the HF out of the pack
>2) Never once used GPS (we could see where we were
> on the maps...)
>3) locating water, warmth, preparing food and
> placing one foot in front of the other is all that counts
>4) RINO's were useless. Lost contact at 1/3rd mile
> but didnt know it until we wasted hours backtracking.
>5) HAM radio on 52 always worked.
>6) Cell phones didnt (though we were getting full
> scale signal readings (maybe we were hitting too
> many cells?
>7) Parents were able to see our progress on FINDU
> just from my manuallly keyed in posits on my D7
> a few times a day. No GPS needed.
>
>In otherwords, one D7 for me (with the thin battery)
>and the little tiny Yeasu FT-2R for the two licensed kids
>would have been sufficient.
>
>Nothing new here. Just an APRS trip report.
>de Wb4APR, Bob
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